Alignment of dev_addr[] field in the struct net_device

Ivan Kokshaysky (ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru)
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:03:31 +0400


Increase of MAX_ADDR_LEN to 8 broke that...

Ivan.

--- 2.4.7/include/linux/netdevice.h Mon Jul 23 12:40:26 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/netdevice.h Mon Jul 23 14:58:03 2001
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ struct net_device

/* Interface address info. */
unsigned char broadcast[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw bcast add */
- unsigned char pad; /* make dev_addr aligned to 8 bytes */
- unsigned char dev_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw address */
+ unsigned char dev_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
+ /* hw address, aligned to 8 bytes */
unsigned char addr_len; /* hardware address length */

struct dev_mc_list *mc_list; /* Multicast mac addresses */
-
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